US655445A - Spring-bearing for bicycles or other vehicles. - Google Patents

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US655445A
US655445A US73086599A US1899730865A US655445A US 655445 A US655445 A US 655445A US 73086599 A US73086599 A US 73086599A US 1899730865 A US1899730865 A US 1899730865A US 655445 A US655445 A US 655445A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B62—LAND VEHICLES FOR TRAVELLING OTHERWISE THAN ON RAILS
    • B62K—CYCLES; CYCLE FRAMES; CYCLE STEERING DEVICES; RIDER-OPERATED TERMINAL CONTROLS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR CYCLES; CYCLE AXLE SUSPENSIONS; CYCLE SIDE-CARS, FORECARS, OR THE LIKE
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    • B62K25/04—Axle suspensions for mounting axles resiliently on cycle frame or fork
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  • the object of this invention is the production of an improved spring-bearing for bicycles and other vehicles.
  • the invention is shown herein in its application to a safety-bicycle.
  • Figure 1 is a front view, partly in section, of the hub of the forward Wheel of a bicycle embodying my invention.
  • Fig. 2 is a side elevation of certain of the parts shown in Fig. 1.
  • Fig. 3 is a front view, partly in section, of the hub of the rear wheel of a bicycle embodying my invention in a slightly-modified form.
  • Fig. 4 is a side elevation of one of the tubular spring-casings, the springs being removed and the lower part of the casing broken away.
  • Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the parts shown in Fig. 3.
  • Fig. 6 is a sectional view on dotted line X Xof Fig. 5; and
  • Fig. 7 is likewise a horizontal section on dotted line Y Y of Fig. 1, the spring being omitted from thelatter View.
  • the ordinary ball-bearings are used, the two cones of said ball-bearings being. fixed on the opposite ends of ashaft.
  • a spring-casing having centrallyperforated ends.
  • Each of said spi'ing casings contains a bearing-block capable of a vertical movement, being guided in said movement by two alined pins, which pins lie in the central perforations in the ends of the spring-casing.
  • Acoil-sprin g surrounds each of said pins and cushions both the upward and the downward movement of the bicycleframe, the bicycle-forks being rigidly secured to the sides of the bearing-blocks.
  • A is the hub of a bicycle-wheel, and A a sleeve for rigidly securing the cones A together.
  • A indicates the balls, and A the cup of the ordinary ball-bearing.
  • the spring-casings B cut awayv at their outer sides to permit access to their interiors, are secured by any suitable means rigidly to the outer ends of the cones A. These spring-casings B are intended in use to stand in a vertical position. They have the closed upper and lower ends B, perforated centrally by the alined screw-threaded openings B which screw-threaded openings are adapted to receive the correspondingly screwthreaded adjusting-studs B The lock-nuts B hold the adj listing-studs B in any desired position of adjustment.
  • adjustingstnds B are provided with the central alined openings B and bear at their inner ends the spring-sockets B eachof which sockets has a central opening coincident with the alined openings B of the adjusting-studs 13
  • Each of the adjusting studs 13 is also provided with a screw-threaded boss B intended to receive the dust-cap B
  • the outer side of each of the spring-casings B is closed by a curving cover 13*, of sheet metal, secured in position in any suitable manner.
  • Two guide-pins 0 lie within the alined open-. ings B of the adjusting-studs B extending also through the central openings of the spring-sockets B. These guide-pins O are fixed in the bearing -block 0 on opposite sides thereof, being screw-threaded therein in this instance, and one of the forks of the bicycle is secured in any suitable manner, as by the bolt 0 to each of the said bearingblocks 0.
  • the upper and lower sides of the bearing-blocks O,surrounding the guide-pins O, are formed to correspond with the face of the spring-socket B and between said bearing-block C and each of said spring-sockets B upon the guide-pins C, have been placed the two coil compression-springs O and C the former above and the latter below the bearing-block O.
  • 0 represents one of the forks of a bicycleframe.
  • Fig. 3 illustrates a form of this spring-bearing slightly modified in detail.
  • a rod D extends through the sleeve A and secures the bearing-blocks C rigidly together.
  • the means of attachment of the spring-casings B to the cones A is also somewhat different from the means illustrated in Fig. 1.
  • This modified form is shown in connection with the rear wheel of the bicycle; but the form of bearing illustrated in Fig. 1 may be used for the rear Wheel as well.
  • a spring-beariugfor bicycles and other vehicles,in combination an axle; a spring-casing fixed with relation thereto, which casing is provided in its opposite ends with two alined screw-threaded openings; a perforated adjusting-stud for each of said openings; a bearing-block; means forsecuring one of the supports for the vehicle-body to the bearingblock; two oppositely-extending guide-pins adapted to lie within the openings in the adjustingstuds; and a spring on each of said guide-pins between the bearing-block and one end of the spring-casing.
  • a spring-bearing for bicycles and other vehicles, in combination, an axle; a springcasing fixed with relation thereto, which casing is provided in its opposite ends with two alined screw-threaded openings; a perforated screw-threaded adjusting stud for each of said openings; a lock-nut, a dust-cap, and a spring-socket for each of said ad j u stin g-studs a bearing-block;means for securing one of the supports for the vehicle-body to the bearing-block; two oppositely-extending guidepins fixed in said block and adapted to lie within the openings in the adjusting-studs; and a spring on each of said guide-pins between the bearing-block and one of the said spring-sockets.
  • a spring-bearing for bicycles and other Vehicles in combination, an axle; a cone fixed oneach end thereof; a ball-race; balls therein; a spring-casing rigidly secured to each cone; a bearing-block in each springcasing; means for securing the supports for the vehicle-body to said bearing-blocks; a guide -.pin for each bearing-block; and a spring on said guide-pin between the bear-- ing-block and one end of the spring-casing.
  • a sprin g-bearin g for bicycles and other vehicles in combination, an axle; a cone fixed at each end thereof; a ball-race; balls therein; a spring-casing rigidly secured to the outer side of each cone, which casing is provided in its opposite ends with two alined openings; a bearing-block for each springcasing; means for securing the supports for the vehicle-body to said bearing-blocks; two oppositely-extending guide-pins fixed in each of said bearing-blocks, and adapted to lie within said alined openings; and a spring on each of said guide-pins between the bearingblock and one end of the spring-casing.
  • a spring-bearin g for bicycles and other vehicles in combination, an axle; a cone fixed at each end thereof; a ball-race; balls therein; a spring-casing rigidly secured to the outer side of each cone, which casing is provided in its opposite ends with two alined openings; a perforated adj usting-studin each of said openings; a spring-socket, a lock-nut, and a dust-cap for each one of said adjusting-studs; a bearing-block for each of said spring-casings; means for securing the supports for the vehicle-body to said bearingblocks; two oppositely-extending guide-pins adapted to lie within the openings in the adjusting-studs; and a spring on each of said guide-pins between the bearing-block and the spring-socket of each adjusting-stud.
  • a spring-bearing for bicycles and other vehicles, the combination, with an axle, of a cone screwed into each end of said axle, and provided with a shoulder; casings arranged vertically at the ends of the hub; screws clamping the casings against the shoulders of the cones; a bearing-block in each one of said casings; means for securing the supports for the vehicle-body to said bearingblocks; pins connected to said bearing-blocks and projecting therefrom, to operate through the ends of the casings; and springs adjustably mounted on said pins.

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Patented Aug. I900.
F. L. KOEHLER SPRING BEARING FUR BICYCLES OR OTHER VEHICLES.
(Application filed Sept. 18, 1899.)
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SPRING BEARING FOR BICYCLES OR OTHER VEHICLES. (Application filed Sept. 18, 189 9.)
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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
FRED L. KOEHLER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TO v THOMAS J. DUNNE, OF DUBUQUE, IOWA.
SPRING-BEARING FOR BICYCLES OR OTHER'VEHICLES.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 655,445, dated August '7, 1900. Application filed September 18, 1899. Serial No. 730,865. (No model.)
To all whom it may concern.-
Be it known that I, FRED L. KOEHLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ohicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in SpringBearings for Bicycles or other Vehicles, of which the following is a specification.
The object of this invention is the production of an improved spring-bearing for bicycles and other vehicles.
The invention is shown herein in its application to a safety-bicycle.
In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front view, partly in section, of the hub of the forward Wheel of a bicycle embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of certain of the parts shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a front view, partly in section, of the hub of the rear wheel of a bicycle embodying my invention in a slightly-modified form. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of one of the tubular spring-casings, the springs being removed and the lower part of the casing broken away. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the parts shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 6 is a sectional view on dotted line X Xof Fig. 5; and Fig. 7 is likewise a horizontal section on dotted line Y Y of Fig. 1, the spring being omitted from thelatter View.
Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views.
In the embodiment here shown of this invention the ordinary ball-bearings are used, the two cones of said ball-bearings being. fixed on the opposite ends of ashaft. To the outer face of each of these cones is rigidly attached a spring-casing having centrallyperforated ends. Each of said spi'ing casings contains a bearing-block capable of a vertical movement, being guided in said movement by two alined pins, which pins lie in the central perforations in the ends of the spring-casing. Acoil-sprin g surrounds each of said pins and cushions both the upward and the downward movement of the bicycleframe, the bicycle-forks being rigidly secured to the sides of the bearing-blocks.
Referring to the drawings, A is the hub of a bicycle-wheel, and A a sleeve for rigidly securing the cones A together.
A indicates the balls, and A the cup of the ordinary ball-bearing.
The spring-casings B, cut awayv at their outer sides to permit access to their interiors, are secured by any suitable means rigidly to the outer ends of the cones A. These spring-casings B are intended in use to stand in a vertical position. They have the closed upper and lower ends B, perforated centrally by the alined screw-threaded openings B which screw-threaded openings are adapted to receive the correspondingly screwthreaded adjusting-studs B The lock-nuts B hold the adj listing-studs B in any desired position of adjustment. These adjustingstnds B are provided with the central alined openings B and bear at their inner ends the spring-sockets B eachof which sockets has a central opening coincident with the alined openings B of the adjusting-studs 13 Each of the adjusting studs 13 is also provided with a screw-threaded boss B intended to receive the dust-cap B The outer side of each of the spring-casings B is closed by a curving cover 13*, of sheet metal, secured in position in any suitable manner.
Two guide-pins 0 lie within the alined open-. ings B of the adjusting-studs B extending also through the central openings of the spring-sockets B. These guide-pins O are fixed in the bearing -block 0 on opposite sides thereof, being screw-threaded therein in this instance, and one of the forks of the bicycle is secured in any suitable manner, as by the bolt 0 to each of the said bearingblocks 0. The upper and lower sides of the bearing-blocks O,surrounding the guide-pins O, are formed to correspond with the face of the spring-socket B and between said bearing-block C and each of said spring-sockets B upon the guide-pins C, have been placed the two coil compression-springs O and C the former above and the latter below the bearing-block O.
0 represents one of the forks of a bicycleframe.
From the construction detailed it will be seen that the weight upon the forks of the bicycle carried upon the bearing-blocks O is borne by the lower springs O, and the upward jolts of the bicycle-frame are cushioned by the upper springs 0 the proper tension of said springs according to the weight of the rider and the condition of the road being obtained by an adjustment of the studs B Fig. 3 illustrates a form of this spring-bearing slightly modified in detail. In this form a rod D extends through the sleeve A and secures the bearing-blocks C rigidly together. The means of attachment of the spring-casings B to the cones A is also somewhat different from the means illustrated in Fig. 1. This modified form is shown in connection with the rear wheel of the bicycle; but the form of bearing illustrated in Fig. 1 may be used for the rear Wheel as well.
While I have described my invention in its application to bicycles, it is clear that it can be used in connection with any wheeled ve hicle.
I claim as my invention- 1. In a spring-beariugfor bicycles and other vehicles,in combination,an axle; a spring-casing fixed with relation thereto, which casing is provided in its opposite ends with two alined screw-threaded openings; a perforated adjusting-stud for each of said openings; a bearing-block; means forsecuring one of the supports for the vehicle-body to the bearingblock; two oppositely-extending guide-pins adapted to lie within the openings in the adjustingstuds; and a spring on each of said guide-pins between the bearing-block and one end of the spring-casing.
2. In a spring-bearing for bicycles and other vehicles, in combination, an axle; a springcasing fixed with relation thereto, which casing is provided in its opposite ends with two alined screw-threaded openings; a perforated screw-threaded adjusting stud for each of said openings; a lock-nut, a dust-cap, and a spring-socket for each of said ad j u stin g-studs a bearing-block;means for securing one of the supports for the vehicle-body to the bearing-block; two oppositely-extending guidepins fixed in said block and adapted to lie within the openings in the adjusting-studs; and a spring on each of said guide-pins between the bearing-block and one of the said spring-sockets.
3. In a spring-bearing for bicycles and other Vehicles, in combination, an axle; a cone fixed oneach end thereof; a ball-race; balls therein; a spring-casing rigidly secured to each cone; a bearing-block in each springcasing; means for securing the supports for the vehicle-body to said bearing-blocks; a guide -.pin for each bearing-block; and a spring on said guide-pin between the bear-- ing-block and one end of the spring-casing.
4. In a sprin g-bearin g for bicycles and other vehicles, in combination, an axle; a cone fixed at each end thereof; a ball-race; balls therein; a spring-casing rigidly secured to the outer side of each cone, which casing is provided in its opposite ends with two alined openings; a bearing-block for each springcasing; means for securing the supports for the vehicle-body to said bearing-blocks; two oppositely-extending guide-pins fixed in each of said bearing-blocks, and adapted to lie within said alined openings; and a spring on each of said guide-pins between the bearingblock and one end of the spring-casing.
5. In a spring-bearin g for bicycles and other vehicles, in combination, an axle; a cone fixed at each end thereof; a ball-race; balls therein; a spring-casing rigidly secured to the outer side of each cone, which casing is provided in its opposite ends with two alined openings; a perforated adj usting-studin each of said openings; a spring-socket, a lock-nut, and a dust-cap for each one of said adjusting-studs; a bearing-block for each of said spring-casings; means for securing the supports for the vehicle-body to said bearingblocks; two oppositely-extending guide-pins adapted to lie within the openings in the adjusting-studs; and a spring on each of said guide-pins between the bearing-block and the spring-socket of each adjusting-stud.
6. In a spring-bearing for bicycles and other vehicles, the combination, with an axle, of a cone screwed into each end of said axle, and provided with a shoulder; casings arranged vertically at the ends of the hub; screws clamping the casings against the shoulders of the cones; a bearing-block in each one of said casings; means for securing the supports for the vehicle-body to said bearingblocks; pins connected to said bearing-blocks and projecting therefrom, to operate through the ends of the casings; and springs adjustably mounted on said pins.
7. Inaspring-bearing for bicycles and other vehicles, the combination with an axle, of a cone screwed into each end of said axle and provided with a shoulder, casings arranged vertically at the ends of the hub, screws clamping the casings against the shoulders of the cones, a bearing-block in each one of said casings; means for securing the supports for the vehicle-body to said bearingblock; pins connected to said bearings and projecting therefrom to operate through the ends of the casings and springs adj ustably mounted on said pins.
FRED L. KOEIILER.
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ALFRED MELTZER, JoHN BUNTE.
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